“Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 156 of 475
“I would hate to meet myself at 15.”
“Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.”
“I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.”
“There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.”
“The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.”
“All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.”
“They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.”
“It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.”
“Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.”
“China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.”
“If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.”
“Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.”
“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.”
“To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.”
“Good and bad - this is the story of my life.”
“A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.”
“Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.”
“It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.”
“His descent was like nightfall.”